2025 Best Paper Award Results
Chosen from a pool of over 400 papers published in 2024
2025 Winner
Ying Shi, Zeyu Gong, Bo Tao, Keyi Li, Zhenfeng Gu, and Ke Tan: “A Climbing Machining Robot for Large Components With Variable Curvature Surface,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 4099-4109, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2024.3362887.
For a climbing robot with innovative controlled suction that adheres to and polishes large variable-curvature surface structures
To read the paper by Shi, Gong, Tao, Li, Gu, and Tan go here.
Finalists
Mohammad Askari, Won Dong Shin, Damian Lenherr, William Stewart, and Dario Floreano: “Avian-Inspired Claws Enable Robot Perching or Walking,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1856-1866, June 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3331357.
Emily Rogers-Bradley, Seong Ho Yeon, Christian Landis, and Hugh M. Herr: “Design and Evaluation of a Quasi-Passive Variable Stiffness Prosthesis for Walking Speed Adaptation in People With Transtibial Amputation,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 335-346, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3276710.
Toshihiro Nishimura, Takeshi Takaki, Yosuke Suzuki, Tokuo Tsuji, and Tetsuyou Watanabe: “Lightweight High-Speed and High-Force Gripper for Assembly,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 16-28, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3294491.
Junhui Law, Xingzhou Du, Wentian Tang, Jiangfan Yu, and Yu Sun: “Navigation of Magnetic Microrobotic Swarms With Maintained Structural Integrity in Fluidic Flow,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 74-84, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2023.3269600.